any DDR Max Fans out there?

Vazor · Post by **Vazor** » Mon Dec 09, 2002 5:39 pm

Shoot, looks like it didn't like me putting spaces in to make the stuff line up. I'll go see if I can find a screenshot.

Vazor · Post by **Vazor** » Mon Dec 09, 2002 5:44 pm

http://gamespot.com/gamespot/filters/pr ... ml?page=21

here's a picture from an the american PS DDR. Hard song, but you get the idea.

leathelanime · Post by **leathelanime** » Mon Dec 09, 2002 5:55 pm

Picture is for members onlt

IratusAngelus · Post by **IratusAngelus** » Mon Dec 09, 2002 5:58 pm

I'm not a member, and I can see it just fine.

Vazor · Post by **Vazor** » Mon Dec 09, 2002 6:03 pm

Odd, I'm not a member either, anyway, here it is.

leathelanime · Post by **leathelanime** » Mon Dec 09, 2002 6:03 pm

It keeps reverting back to this topic

leathelanime · Post by **leathelanime** » Mon Dec 09, 2002 6:04 pm

ok it's back up now

ErMaC · Post by **ErMaC** » Mon Dec 09, 2002 7:03 pm

The way doubles works is oyu have one person dancing across both pads. The dances are designed, obviously, so that they're physically possible. They don't give you a double-jump where you have to hit the left pad's left and the right pad's right! It's much more physical, however, because you're forced to constantly shift your center of gravity around and twist your body in order to hit each step correctly. Sometimes after certain songs my waist hurts ^_^

For example, say you need to hit, in sequence:
Left pad's left, left's down, left's right, right's left, right's down, right's right.
I.e., you hit the arrows along the bottom of the pad from right to left (skipping the up arrows). You have to hit the first arrow with your left foot, then the down arrow with your right foot, that's easy enough. Then you need to cross over and hit the next arrow with your left foot, meanwhile getting ready to shift your center of gravity towards the center of the pads because you now have to swing your right foot up and around to the right pad's left arrow. You then do the same thing by swinging your left foot down to the right pad's down arrow, and finally you can move your right foot over to the right pad's right arrow.

It's a lot simpler than that - describing it's rather difficult in text.

But in practice it makes life much more difficult that playing plain old singles because of the running around you do.

In the arcade, doubles also generally costs twice as much as singles. Some places (although mostly in Japan, I haven't found a place like this in the US) have a "2 Player Premium" mode where 1 credit can activate one or both pads (so singles, doubles, and versus cost the same) but those places are very hard to find. Here at UCI it's 50c a credit so it's much cheaper than most places, but still a dollar per game can get pricey fast.

FirestormXIII · Post by **FirestormXIII** » Mon Dec 09, 2002 9:24 pm

Nothing beats playing DDR in an arcade. I have DDRMAX for PS2 and a pad, but I need to get a custom hard pad before I start playing on any consistent basis at home.

And ErMaC...*shakes head* you're nuts

/Me has a lot of work to do to be able to hang with teh MaC at AWA next year

leathelanime · Post by **leathelanime** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 2:31 am

who know's I may enter the AWA contest in DDR next year.....Light mode still do kick my ass on some songs right now though.....Like Healing Wind and Music and the Police.....God I suck...I WANT NEW SONGS!